Settling Stones
Children will be introduced to a practice of settling themselves through selecting a stone with their teacher who guides them on how to take care of a special item. This activity is offering you the opportunity to set a daily ritual with your children to help them settle. This ritual can be particularly helpful when…
Read MoreMy Many Coloured Days
This dance unit explores the relationship between feelings and colours. Using a picture book as a starting place, students create and share original movement to describe an experience – perhaps the excitement of being back at school, having been in isolation, or perhaps about feelings about siblings. This unit of work was created by Ginnie…
Read MorePlaying with Anger
This is the first learning experience in the unit: Playing with Anger. This learning experience uses the picture book, Anger is like Armour, to help children explore anger. Children learn about the function anger can serve, how anger might feel in their bodies and healthy ways to express anger. This unit of work was created…
Read MoreNavigating the Waves
This activity offers a space where students can contemplate emotional and physical responses to help navigate the circumstances they are experiencing. They do this while creating imagery that encourages them to identify what will help them cultivate a sense of resilience and self regulation as they move forward. Students will create a collage (collaborative or…
Read MoreMatariki for Tamariki
In this activity, the teacher provides provocations to prompt the children’s curiosity in exploring the influence of Matariki within their lives. This experience would ideally be offered after Matariki and the seven other stars have been introduced to the children, and is more suitable for a small group of maybe six children (maximum) at a…
Read MoreAlone together
Students return to school after a crisis with different experiences. Dance can help students share their stories while seemingly focusing on something else. This dance work helps students focus on their own time away from school in the crisis and see that others will have experienced similar and different things. This unit of work was…
Read MoreHello Again!
This dance work uses dance as a way of creating new forms of greetings. Due to physical distancing imposed during some crises, we sometimes have to find other ways of creating both formal and informal ways of saying hello. There is opportunity for students to have fun creating together while discussing the ways life may…
Read MoreHā Ora
In Hā Ora, you will find three units of work, which are all connected thematically under the concept of Hā Ora. HĀ ORA MEANS A BREATH OF LIFE. This offering is intended to support child wellbeing as they come back into their school communities after a time of challenge. Hā ora also describes having an essence…
Read MoreDictionary of Emotions
This activity supports children through a variety of mediums to connect and explore as they build their emotional literacy in the creation of a dictionary of emotions. This unit of work was created by Claire Coleman, Katy Pérez, and Amanda Wallace. View Lesson PLan
Read MoreKu Kulu Pilina (Building Connections)
Students have the opportunity to connect with self and also a partner to cultivate a relationship with emotions of self and also trust with another person. This learning experience helps students build pilina (connection) through yoga. This unit of work was created by Kilihune Ka’aihue, Makalani Franco-Francis and Christy Chadwick at Maui Arts & Cultural…
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